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Hot blue star

Its story

17 Vulpeculae is a hot blue star on the modest outline of the Fox, a quiet constellation between Swan and Arrow. Its B class places it among the blue-white embers of the sky, far hotter and far younger than the Sun. Its light crosses some five hundred years to reach us: it set out when European cartographers still filled the oceans with sea monsters.

Constellation: Vulpecula
Apparent magnitude: 5.08
Distance: 504.2 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 301.723° · Dec 23.614°
Catalogue: HIP 99080 · HD 190993

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